Idols.
We all have them. Whenever Jesus is not central in your life, you have turned to an idol.
Faith makes people weird. It makes people do things which don’t make sense to the naked eye. This is because faith is primarily concerned with unseen realities.
Shame plays a key role in shaping human behaviour, yet most of the time we don't notice it's effects because we find it difficult to identify. Peter helps us to identify shame and see the deep remedy to it that is offered to us by Jesus.
Shame made its first appearance in the garden of Eden after Adam and Eve first disobeyed God, and ever since then has been a common reality touching all of humanity.
Shame shapes far too many of us. It’s the invading sense of worthlessness, inferiority, rejection, weakness, humiliation, and failure. Our response to it is to find whatever way that we can to get away from others and hide. Everyone knows what it is like to live in the aftermath of the shame. The way out, however, is harder to find.
Shame drives people to implement many defence mechanisms in the hope that one of them will be able to effectively deal with it; yet none of them actually do.